We invite you to an incredibly amazing, warm and wonderful collaboration between Mountain Shadows Outreach Services, Art Miles Mural Project, and California State University San Marcos – Tukwut Leadership Center. For more information about this event please contact Flor Angel,Mountain…
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Eagle Scout Christian Bowen and Mountain Shadows Connect4 Fun By: Sheryl Wilde Connect4 is a vertical game of tic-tac-toe. Players take turns dropping colored discs from the top into a seven-column, six-row, vertically suspended grid. The pieces fall straight down,…
Read MoreBy: Sheryl Wilde Step. Stop. Breathe. Step. Stop. Breathe. It was like living in a barbeque pit for 9 days – a barbeque pit measuring more than 24 miles across. Ash filled the air – burned the nostrils, the lungs.…
Read MoreBAMM! The shiny new Mercedes-Benz convertible crashed into the wall of Laurel Park house as Marquez squealed with glee. BAMM! The car hit the wall again. Then, his eyes bright, lost in a world of his imagination, he revved the…
Read MoreJanuary 10, 2017 No arms. No legs. No limits. By: Sheryl Wilde “To state the obvious, I have no limbs, and this has placed me in the group of people born into this world with immediate challenges. But I am…
Read MoreDecember 20, 2016 I’ll never forget the day when Sandra* told me this story about her son, Luke*: Luke was sitting alone in a long hallway. He was hunched forward in his wheelchair, apparently sleeping. Sandra scanned the white-walled hallway…
Read MoreNovember 22, 2016 Happy Thanksgiving! “Doing things for others makes me feel good in my heart. Many people don’t take the time to help others. Many people take things for granted. Many don’t realize the gifts they’ve been given. We…
Read MoreOctober 18, 2016 Mila: A Mountain Shadows Story of Hope By: Sheryl Wilde If I told you my story, you would hear hope that wouldn’t let go.* She was born in the middle of the night, in a shower, to…
Read MoreSeptember 27, 2016 By: Sheryl Wilde Every child is an artist until he’s told he’s not an artist. At Mountain Shadows we wholeheartedly agree with this statement, originally uttered by John Lennon in the 1960’s. And recently, at Mountain Shadows…
Read MoreJuly 26, 2016 Janeth Monroy: Holding up the Sky for Mountain Shadows Residents By: Sheryl Wilde There is a Chinese proverb which says, “Women hold up half the sky.” It is upon this adage that the non-profit organization, Half the…
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